updating multiple freebsd desktops

[Rakhesh Sasidharan]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Bram Van Steenlandt wrote:
>>> So what I would really like is to make one machine the build/test machine 
>>> and keep this machine up to date with the ports and portmanager or so.
>>> Can I then set up some kind of repo with the packages from this machine 
>>> and run something like "yum upgrade" on every desktop we have ?
>> 
>> 1. Use one machine as the build/ test machine. Let /usr/ports be on that, 
>> and shared to all the other machines.
>> 
>> 2. Keep the ports tree up-to-date on this machine, and while building ports 
>> make packages too. (`make package-recursive` will do I guess). These will 
>> be stored on /usr/ports/packages.
>> 
>> 3. On the clients, let /usr/ports be the shared one from the main machine.
>>   a) If you want to find the packages that need updating, use
>>      something like `pkg_version -l "<"`.
>>   b) If you want to update *all* the packages, use something like
>>      `portupgrade -aPP`.
>> 
>> I haven't done any of these myself. Just that if I were in a situation such 
>> as yours, this is what I'd probably do.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Rakhesh
> rsync or some other means of sharing data may be better than a global share 
> as you might have one machine with a different architecture building under a 
> work directory in the /usr/ports directory.

Or set "WRKDIRPREFIX=   /tmp" in your /etc/make.conf on all machines ... ?

Regards,
Rakhesh